Spider Ball python
Dominant morph
- Inheritance
- Dominant
- Super form
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- Allelic with
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- Also called
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How Spider is inherited
Spider is dominant: one copy is enough to show it, and animals with two copies look the same as those with one. Breeding a Spider to a normal gives about 50% Spider babies.
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Associated with a neurological wobble.
Health notes
⚠️ Neurological wobble (head-tracking problems) in Spiders, varying from mild to severe.
Breeding outcomes
Odds per egg. Try your own pairing in the genetics calculator.
Spider × Normal
- 50%Normal
- 50%Spider
Spider × Spider
- 75%Spider
- 25%Normal
Research mentioning Spider
- Animal-appropriate housing of ball pythons (Python regius)-Behavior-based evaluation of two types of housing systems.
PloS one · 2021
- A community-science approach identifies genetic variants associated with three color morphs in ball pythons (Python regius).
PloS one · 2022
- Comparative Assessment of Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Spider Morph and Wild Type Ball Pythons (Python regius) for Evaluation of the Morphological Correlate of Wobble Syndrome.
Journal of comparative pathology · 2022
- Malformations of the sacculus and the semicircular canals in spider morph pythons.
PloS one · 2022
- Dosed Versus Prolonged Exposures: A Direct Comparison of One-Session Treatments for Animal Phobias
ScholarWorks - WMU (Western Michigan University) · 2011
Other ball python morphs
- Albino
- Asphalt
- Axanthic (Jolliff)
- Axanthic (TSK)
- Axanthic (VPI)
- Bamboo
- Banana
- Black Pastel
- Butter
- Calico
- Candy
- Caramel Albino
- Champagne
- Chocolate
- Cinnamon
- Clown
- Desert Ghost
- Enchi
- Fader
- Fire
- Genetic Stripe
- GHI
- Gravel
- Het Red Axanthic
- Hidden Gene Woma
- Huffman
- Hypo
- Lavender Albino
- Leopard
- Lesser
- Mahogany
- Mojave
- Monsoon
- Mystic
- Orange Dream
- Pastel
- Phantom
- Piebald
- Pinstripe
- Russo
- Sable
- Specter
- Spotnose
- Sunset
- Ultramel
- Vanilla
- Woma
- Yellow Belly